Originally, the “reunion” was just the current members of Genesis playing a set with Peter Gabriel in order to raise money. Hence the name “six” of the best: the five members of the Genesis touring
band (Tony, Mike, and Phil plus Daryl and Chester) and Peter Gabriel. How did Steve get involved with the reunion? Manir Donaghue points to a 1998 interview in a UK magazine called "Classic
Rock" in which Steve says: "I was in Brazil, working on an album [Till We Have Faces] and my father phoned me and said ‘look, the guys are doing this show at Milton Keynes and it'll look bad if you're not involved’. So I flew back, not really knowing whether they'd let me play or not. I got back, phoned Pete and said I'd like to be involved and he told me that they were rehearsing the day before at Hammersmith Odeon where Genesis were actually doing their own show." … "They were doing one set at Hammersmith with all their new stuff and another set with Pete. It was a bit of a memory test for everybody. But anyway, they said they'd got most of it worked out and did I want to do a couple of encores with them? So I did." The songs Steve played on were I Know What I Like, and the Knife.
Insomma, se non fosse stato per suo padre, Steve non arebbe nemmeno saputo che si riunivano a MK![:0]